More on Craig

The Idaho Statesman has now published a lengthy recap of a five-month investigation it recently made into rumors that the Idaho senator was gay.

The research was impressive: the paper interviewed 41 of Craig’s fraternity brothers from the University of Idaho in the 1960s, for instance. The investigation culminated in a one-hour interview with Craig and his wife on May 14 of this year, in which Craig said bluntly, “I am not gay, and I never have been.”

The Statesman says that until now, it had “declined to run a story about Craig’s sex life, because the paper didn’t have enough corroborating evidence and because of the senator’s steadfast denial.” That changed with the news of Craig’s guilty plea.